The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small town near Oklahoma City. It won a Tony Award for Best Play and was made into a film in 1960. The drama centers on...

In this article: William Inge, Elia Kazan, Eileen Heckart, Pat Hingle, and Margo Jones

...supporting actress, Jones' role as a shady lady triumphed over Janet Leigh ("Psycho"), Mary Ure ("Sons and Lovers"), Shirley Knight ("The Dark at the Top of the Stairs") and Glynis Johns ("The Sundowners"). Summing up Jones' character,...

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...Broadway career and was in the original casts of some of the great plays in American theater, including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," and "J.B." James Morrison, an actor in the television series "24,"...

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...received a succession of prominent Broadway roles. He was nominated for a Tony Award for best featured actor in William Inge's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1957) and played the lead role in Archibald MacLeish's retelling of Job,...

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...in the 1961 film "Splendor in the Grass. " He could be a relatively benign character, like the harness salesman in William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" on Broadway, or a quite sinister one, like the sadistic gangster who stubbed...

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...Williams and Arthur Miller, as a giant of postwar U.S. theater. He had four Broadway hits: "Bus Stop," "Come Back, Little Sheba," "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Picnic." But Inge never again...

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...according to strict and orthodox rules as to what a play should be. As the introduction to a published version of a later Inge work, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," has it, attending one of his plays is "like going next door to call on...

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"Come Back, Little Sheba" was Inge's first Broadway success and was followed by such hits as "Picnic" (1953), "Bus Stop" (1955) and "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1957). Additional casting for "Come Back, Little Sheba" will be...

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...with Lew Ayres. When "The Men" proved a commercial dud, she returned to the stage. Some of her Broadway credits included William Inge's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1957), directed by Elia Kazan, and "I Never Sang For My Father"...

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